It skips the first line because you aren't spliting it. Try this (which I very slightly modified from @jcao219's post)

with open("scores.dat") as fileIn:
# with statements are cool: http://effbot.org/zone/python-with-statement.htm
for line in fileIn: # this loops over every line in the file
if line: # this line skips empty lines in the file
the_list = [x.strip() for x in line.split(',')]
# create a list by splitting on comma then stripping off any white space
print(the_list) # prove it worked

Hi. so this is actually a continuation from another question of mine[Here](https://www.daniweb.com/programming/software-development/threads/506795/dynamically-add-values-into-datagridview-cell-from-listbox-vb2010) but i was advised to start a new thread as the original question …

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